17 ordspråk av James Whistler
James Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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An artist's career always begins tomorrow
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Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce
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Had silicon been a gas, I would have been a major general
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Had silicon been a gas, I would have been a major general
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I am not arguing with you - I am telling you
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
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I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many
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The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano
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